Down To Earth With Harriet Cammock
532 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsSharing hope, loving people, changing lives. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
What Do You Believe?
May 30, 2021 15:34 - 25 minutes - 12.2 MBOn today’s episode, Harriet asks listeners to question what they believe about their stories, about their lives, and about themselves. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
“I Will Repay”
May 23, 2021 17:12 - 26 minutes - 12.4 MBHarriet talks about Joel 2:25, where God tells His people that He will repay all that was taken from you, and return to you all the years, the blessings, and the joy that was taken from you. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
I Had An Issue
May 16, 2021 15:50 - 23 minutes - 11.1 MBHarriet explores what dealing with issues --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Your Pain Has A Purpose
May 09, 2021 16:55 - 26 minutes - 12.2 MBHarriet discusses the pain that leads to our purpose. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
The Power of A Dream
April 25, 2021 16:47 - 24 minutes - 11.7 MBHabbakuk 2:2-4 tells us to write the vision and make it plain to all who can see. But what do we do when our visions & dreams don’t line up with our reality? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
What are your lampposts?
April 18, 2021 15:47 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBIn this segment Harriet discusses the evidence of your faith. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
What Is Your Prison
April 04, 2021 15:11 - 26 minutes - 12.4 MBSometimes our choices and decisions cause us to be imprisoned. Prison is not always defined as a place where the government has control over you, but a place in your mind, or choices we have made. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
The Rise of Asian-American Hate
March 21, 2021 14:53 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBDiscusses the Atlanta spa shooting --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
The Re-Emergence of Voter Suppression in the South
March 07, 2021 15:50 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBIt’s like #JimCrow laws all over again as Republican legislatures seek to enact voter suppression initiatives against Black and Brown people. Meanwhile China has amassed the 2nd largest Navy Fleet in the world. Do with that as you will --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
It’s Working For My Good
February 28, 2021 16:13 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBRomans 8:27 (NKJV) says all things work together four good (paraphrased). Comforting words in times of trial, when nothing seems to be working, when the thing you need the most, is not happening. Public policies fail, politicians fail to deliver on accountability and promises. You are left bereft and reeling from disasters, economic and natural. Take comfort in this Scripture. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
White Supremacist Politics Are (Clearly) Failing Texas Residents
February 21, 2021 16:41 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBTexas is recovering from the snowstorm that caused the state’s power grid to collapse and left millions without electricity during freezing weather. For days, millions of Texans lived without power, sufficient warmth, accessible roads or empathy from certain elected officials. While millions of residents starved, froze and went hungry, their elected officials flew to Cancun and Florida to soak up the sun. With one of the hallmark tenets of Republicanism being ‘ pull yourself up by your bootst...
The Acquittal of Donald TrumpAnd the Truth About What Happened on Jan. 6
February 14, 2021 16:09 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBThe Republican Party has become the party of the far far right, given to extremism. Conspiracy theories abound and fomented by the former President, that fueled a riot at The Capitol on Jan. 6. What are they afraid of about that day that if Americans learn the truth, would jeopardize their chances in #2022 and #2024? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
The Qanon Conspiracy & The GOP
February 07, 2021 15:54 - 48 minutes - 45.1 MBThe Qanon conspiracy has at it’s base a theory that the government is being run by satanists and sex traffickers and that Donald Trump, ( No kidding) is the man who who can save the country from this. Many of their followers played a prominent role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, incited by Donald Trump. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Are We In A Civil War: America At A Crossroads
January 31, 2021 16:03 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBA failed President in an attempt to overturn an election, incited a mob to run up on elected representatives while the legislature was in session. This action whether he thought it through or not, brought America to civil war, not fought with guns, but a war nonetheless of ideas and ideals, on how we govern, how we rule each other, how we distribute the wealth of the country and how we vote. America at a crossroads. Do we continue to be the shining city on a hill, or do we devolve into our ba...
Why It Is Important to Impeach Donald Trump. Again
January 24, 2021 15:55 - 50 minutes - 47.2 MBAmerica is a Republic. She needs to be protected from radical seditious Americans. The impeachment serves to be a deterrent to the next populous leader who wants absolute power. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
How the Republican Party is Responsible for the January 6th Riots
January 18, 2021 16:07 - 54 minutes - 50.8 MBThe Republican Party whose leader is Donald Trump, incited a riot on the US Capitol in Washington DC on January 6th, 2021. Trump who lost the November 3, 2020 general elections refused to accept the results and mounted challenges in battleground states at every judicial level. Through social media he radicalized fringe elements of the Republican Party and invited them to Washington to fight on his behalf, to have the election results decertified. All the while the Republican establishment was...
What Will Happen in the Next 72 Hours
January 17, 2021 15:53 - 49 minutes - 46.2 MBThe Capitol under siege, State Capitals threatened, amid the inauguration of the 46th President. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Capitol Protests, Domestic Terroists Simulating George Floyd Protests
January 10, 2021 15:59 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBWednesday January 6,202, will go down in Infamy. It was the day trump supporters who had just left a rally organized by trump and his allies, incited a mob to stage a hostile take-over of the U. S. Capitol in Washington, DC. From all accounts this was an insurrection and a coup. All 435 members of Congress and 100 Senators, including the vice-president, a trump loyalist, were inside. Was this mob trying to simulate the George Floyd protests? What was their agenda? Did they have a civil righ...
Happy New Year-2021-Means 2020 Won
January 03, 2021 15:56 - 50 minutes - 47 MBThe year 2020 has gone down in history as one of the worst years in civilization. What can we expect of 2021? Does it mean that 2020 was a dress rehearsal or that 2020 won? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Employers Can Bar Unvaccinated Employees from returning to Work
December 22, 2020 13:55 - 40 minutes - 37.6 MBIn the age of the coronavirus, questions surrounding the safety of returning to office spaces abound. Under new ruling by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or the EEOC, employers are entitled and required to ensure safe workspaces. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Stimulus Checks For $600-And We’re Supposed to Be Thankful?
December 21, 2020 13:45 - 38 minutes - 35.8 MBU.S. Congressional leaders have reached agreement on a $900B package to provide the first new aid in months to an economy hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, the Senate’s top Republican and Democrats said on Sunday, but it remained unclear when Congress would vote to seal the deal. After living in a global pandemic for almost a whole year, people have been evicted, experienced job loss, unspeakable mourning, and the like. Now we are supposed to be grateful to our elected leaders for providi...
Greed & Incompetence Prevented N95 Masks Fromm Getting To Americans while People Died
December 17, 2020 13:58 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBThe coronavirus pandemic had unleashed a bonanza for untested contractors riding a wave of unprecedented demand and scarcity of everything from hand sanitizers to ICU beds. So far the administration of Donald Trump has ah fed out at least $5.1 billion in no-bid contracts to address pandemic, federal data purchasing shows. The VA , far more than any agency appeared to be awarding contracts to little-known vendors in search of Poe. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/po...
Segregated On Purpose: America’s Richest Towns Fight Affordable Housing
December 15, 2020 13:47 - 40 minutes - 37.6 MBWestport, Connecticut is one example of a wealthy suburb that has surrounded itself with invisible walls to block access to affordable housing. The otherwise politically liberal date has kept its low-income housing concentrated in poor cities, an imbalance that hasn’t budged in thirty years. Zoning boards rely on regulations often containing coded, racist language to block the construction of privately developed duplexes and apartment building within their borders. The impact is most felt by ...
Obituaries of Coronavirus Victims Provide Stern Warnings on Mask-Wearing
December 15, 2020 12:51 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBIn past decades, families who have often declined to write an obituary how their relative died when there was stigma attached to the cause of death-AIDS, opioid overdose, or suicide for example. But as the public becomes more aware of mental illness, drug addiction, infectious disease, obituaries now give way to candor. Such is the case for deaths resulting from coronavirus. Families and friends write in the terrifying final days of their loved ones, while urging people to take social distanc...
The Storming of The Bastille and it’s Relevance Today
December 13, 2020 15:53 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBWhat message Does the historical date of 14 July 1789, Paris France hold for us today? A group of angry people, angry at the establishment, seething with resentment, attacked a state prison on the outskirts of Paris. The thing is the people were not attacking to set the seven prisoners free, the people wanted access to the bullets and ammunition stored inside the prison. Sounds familiar? People want access to power over their own lives, what will stop them from storming any city or legislatur...
MasterCard and Visa Have Stopped Allowing Usage of their cards at PornHub
December 11, 2020 13:55 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBIn a stunning rebuke,MasterCard and Visa have stopped allowing usage of their financial services at PornHub. MasterCard in a statement on Thursday evening said “ confirmed violations of our standards prohibiting unlawful content on their site” which prompted the company to terminate the acceptance of its cards on the site. In a separate statement, Visa said “We are instructing the financial institutions who serve MindGeek to suspend processing of payments through the Visa network” pending the...
Visa & MasterCard Are Investigating Their Ties to Pornhub
December 10, 2020 13:44 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBVisa and MasterCard said they would investigate their financial ties to MindGeek, the parent company of the adult website, PornHub, after The New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof reported that the website included videos of child abuse and non consensual sexual violence. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Pornhub Exploits Adult Women- And Little Girls, Too
December 08, 2020 20:30 - 1 hour - 88.9 MBTrigger/content warning: sexual assault, rape, child molestation, pedophilia. A juggernaut of adult content and the 10th-most visited website in the world, Pornhub has made it’s name as being the go-to-place for free explicit videos and photos. Bit what price do the women and underage girls in these videos pay for ‘free’ content? Serena K. was 14 yrs old when a male classmate asked her to make a naked video and send it to him. The video ended up on Pornhub- and as of the date of this broadcas...
Do Our Imperfections Get in the Way of Our Faith
December 06, 2020 16:22 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBA study on Christian living and faith. Dismissing the tropes associated with performative preaching. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Police in Mississippi Want Access to Your Home Security Footage
December 04, 2020 14:04 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBThe police department in Jackson, Mississippi is facing a sharp rise in homicides and a major budget cut. To combat these issues, city leaders are expanding police surveillance powers to allow residents to send live feeds from popular doorbell security cameras directly to the city’s command center. Citing concerns about privacy violations, civil liberties advocates warn that the technology could lead to increased police scrutiny of people’s everyday-activities and more arrests for low-level o...
The Art of Bouncing Back with Duncan Kirkwood
December 03, 2020 15:49 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBDuncan Kirkwood is speaker, U.S. Army veteran, author and all-around empowerment speaker. A husband and father of three, Mr. Kirkwood uses the power of words and a resilient mindset to overcome life’s toughest adversities. From building a spirit of gratitude to letting go of the past and discovering your purpose, Mr. Kirkwood’s tools for leading a fulfilling and successful life are in high-demand and they are just what we need for this holiday season. A proud Alabama Star Alum , Duncan Kirkwo...
The Inequalities Surrounding AIDS ( World AIDS Day 2020)
December 01, 2020 15:53 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBIn America 1 in 7 persons aged 13-24 is living with HIV and does not know it. Criminalizing sex workers, people who use drugs and people in same sex relationships does not stop AIDS. We need to take away the inequalities in healthcare and level the playing field so folks in Southern States with high infection rates can have access to testing and treatment. This is a #downtoearth approach to a pandemic. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Evictions Cause Coronavirus Deaths
November 30, 2020 16:13 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBResearchers at CNBC report that allowing to resume (after several jurisdictions lifted the short moratoriums imposed because of the coronavirus pandemic) led to as many as 433,000+ additional cases, and as many as 10,700 Coronavirus-related deaths in the United States between March and September --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Thanksgiving 2020
November 24, 2020 15:18 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBThis year, our rituals have changed. Due to the trumpvirus, who has become the uninvited guest at our Thanksgiving table, has caused our annual family gatherings to look a little different. Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁🦃🍽 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Computers Are Creating Stunningly Real ‘Fake’ People
November 23, 2020 15:28 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBComputers Are Creating Stunningly Real, Fake People Today, you can buy an image of a fake person online—and use that person’s appearance on real websites. Advances in technology allow artificial intelligence to create fake people. Computers can make these people appear old or young, with any gender or ethnicity of their choosing. These simulated people are popping up all over the internet as masks used by real individuals with nefarious intent. --- Support this podcast: https://podcaster...
The President, Concession and the Coronavirus
November 12, 2020 15:54 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBWe talked to Marion Jones,an expert in drug abuse recovery who has a message, during this season for anyone struggling with addiction.. The elections are long over. What is left are administrative functions of certifying the results that take place in States’ Board of Canvassers. The president, however is probably the only person in the country who seems to think the results will be overturned as he continues with a flurry of frivolous lawsuits. While he’a trying to keep the national conversa...
Why Are Republicans So Keen on Canceling ObamaCare?
November 10, 2020 16:07 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBIt was a Trump Campaign promise in 2016 to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) also known as ObamaCare. Republicans throughout his four year tenure in office had promised that ObamaCare would be repealed. In this lame duck session of Congress and now having packed the SCOTUS with their appointees, Republicans are about to further do themselves in; canceling the Affordable Care Act in the midst of a pandemic. This is political theatre at it’s best. --- Support this podcast: https://podcas...
President-Elect Biden Has Already Appointed a Coronavirus Task Force
November 09, 2020 15:41 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBThe U.S. reported it’s 10 millionth case on Sunday, with the latest million added in just 10 days, as most of the country struggled to contain the outbreaks in the third and most widespread wave of infection since the pandemic began. Case reports have soared in the last week, shattering records. The U.S. alone accounts for about one-fifth of reported coronavirus cases in the world. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Let There be Peace
November 08, 2020 15:55 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBBy now,we are all aware that the elections are over and the voice of the people have spoken. President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President Elect, Sen. Kamala Harris have won the necessary electoral college votes to propel them into the White House. The sitting President’s refusal to accept the Will of the people is problematic. His neophytes and surrogates are busy planning and strategizing to disrupt normal life for all Americans. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/po...
Why Do People of Color Vote Against Their Self-Intereat
November 06, 2020 15:42 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBIt ceases to amaze: immigrants and in particular, immigrants of color, consistently vote Republican, despite the Republican Party being anti-immigrant, racist, and prejudiced to those very same individuals. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Biden’s Michigan Win Comes As a Shock in Macomb County. A Trump Stronghold
November 05, 2020 16:05 - 58 minutes - 54.5 MBWith Biden’s narrow win in Michigan, many are looking to Wayne County, the Blackest county in America, for delivering the Midwestern state to the Democrats. Residents of Macomb County, a county outside of Detroit that is the third largest county in Michigan, found themselves in shock as Wayne County turned the entire state from Red to Blue. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Today, We The People Decide On Our Democracy
November 03, 2020 15:54 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBIn today’s final showdown between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, our country decides history- and chooses whether Black, Brown, poor, and immigrant people will live and have access to healthcare, a living wage, and affordable housing --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Voter Suppression Has Been Going On For A ‘Very’ Long Time
November 02, 2020 15:55 - 44 minutes - 41.5 MBWith videos circulating all over social media of MAGA supporters using their cars to run potential Democratic voters off the road-and police nowhere to be found-research is showing that in 6 of the previous 7 elections, Democrats have won the popular vote. So how have Republicans managed to maintain their grip on political power? The answer is alarmingly simple: Voter Suppression. Concerted public policy geared towards restricting access to the polls during each and every election. ...
Change -Here We Go Again
November 01, 2020 15:54 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBWe have been in the grip of a nightmare called a pandemic for several months. As 2020 draws to a close, we are seeing lockdowns, first experienced when the pandemic began in March and now at the end of the year, here we go again. America is on the brink of change. After a Summer of strife and marches and protests against racial i justice, the change will not just take place with the elections, but the ensuing months afterwards. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s...
Watch Whiteness Work Part II:Jerry Falwell, Jr is Suing the University That Fired Him
October 30, 2020 14:47 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBJerry Falwell, Jr has sued liberty University, alleging the evangelical school founded by his late pastor father damaged his reputation in a series of public statements that followed his resignation as president and chancellor in August amid a series of scandals. The lawsuit filed in Lynchburg Circuit Court on Wednesday includes claims of defamation, and breach of contract. It alleges that Liberty officials accepted what Falwell says are false claims about his involvement in an extramarital a...
The Language of Racism-And How The Oppressed Side With The Oppressor
October 29, 2020 14:55 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBWith the recent revelation that Ice Cube-rapper,actor,and African-American icon is ‘working with’ Jared Kushner on a ‘Platinum Plan’ to supposedly enrich the Black community, many are calling into question the legitimacy of Ice Cube’s intentions. As a former rapper whose songs often decried White politics, now Ice Cube finds himself allying with- and legitimizing- the ‘rugged individualism’ narrative parroted by the wealthy white elite. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify....
Your Rights to a Safe Abortion Are Now Up in The Air
October 27, 2020 15:00 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBWith Amy Coney Barrett now a United States Supreme Court Justice, women across the country are in jeopardy of losing access to safe, legal abortions. Conservatives are of the mistaken belief that banning abortions mean that abortion procedures will cease everywhere. What folks fail to understand is that legalized abortion means that abortion procedures are safe, and that they follow prescribed medical guidelines to keep those who undertake the procedures safe. Amy Barrett and the majority Con...
Watch Whiteness Work: Amy Coney Barrett is Set To Be A Supreme Court Justice
October 26, 2020 15:03 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBBeing white in America means being the least qualified person in the room but having the most prestigious-and most senior position. Positions that Blacks and people of color have to be routinely over- qualified and supremely educated for. Ms. Barrett has only two years experience in private practice, has never tried a case nor argued an appeal, and only became a judge for the first time in 2017. A Black woman or a woman of color in Ma. Barrett’s position would have to have twice the qualifica...
Is it a Conservative Value to Suppress the Rights of People
October 25, 2020 15:04 - 54 minutes - 50.7 MBToday, people are self-governed. That means we elect or choose our leaders. In Biblical times, God appointed leaders by speaking through Prophets and directing them to whom to appoint. God doesn’t speak through prophets today to dictate the choice of leaders. People choose their leaders. Is it a right to choose our leaders? Who declared conservativeness as a human value that is better than any other? And that that said value is ordained and sanctioned by God? The values of faith, family, love...
What if You Win?
October 22, 2020 14:52 - 45 minutes - 42.5 MBIt’s twelve days to the November 2020 elections and our nerves are fraught with so many plays on how the election could turn out. What if Trump is re-elected? What if Biden wins? What will it mean for Black Americans and racial violence if white supremacy gains ground in the white house. So many ways that this could play out it’s nerve-wracking but what about our own lives and our what if scenarios? Are we playing to win? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ha...